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Neroccio de' Landi (painter) Italian, 1447 - 1500 Claudia Quinta, c. 1490/1495 tempera on panel Overall: 105 x 46 cm (41 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.) overall: 128.9 x 77.5 x 8.3 cm (50 3/4 x 30 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.12 |
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Provenance
Probably commissioned by the Piccolomini family, Siena. art market, Florence, c. 1850/1860; Louis Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris;[1] his heirs;[2] sold 1930 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Timbal sold his first collection, assembled over the previous 20 years, during the German siege of Paris on 29 November 1872 to Dreyfus; see Douglas Lewis, "Gustave Dreyfus," in The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, London, 1996: 9:298.
[2] See Dora Landau, "Notes from Abroad," International Studio (August 1930): 62, and August L. Mayer, "Die Sammlung Gustave Dreyfus," Pantheon 4, no. 1 (January 1931): 17-18.
[3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
- Dreyfus, Gustave
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Piccolomini Family
- Timbal, Louis-Charles
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